Developing Innovative Approaches for Collecting Food Price Data in U.S. Territories and the Non-Contiguous States

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Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) is seeking a professional to investigate, pilot, and implement at scale new methods of collecting food price data in regions of the country that tend to be under-represented in sources of food price data currently accessible to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), specifically the non-contiguous States: Alaska and Hawaii, and the five U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.